Martin Beauvais

Martin Beauvais (27 September 1893-5 July 1918) was a French Army soldier during World War I.

Biography
Martin Beauvais was born in Rennes, Brittany, France on 27 September 1893, and he was drafted into the French Army when World War I broke out. Beauvais served in the French 13th Army on the Belgian frontier, and he became known as a talented sharpshooter. At the 1918 Battle of Homblieres, he shot several Imperial German Army troops dead as they charged across a field towards the rudimentary French trench near some woods, but he was killed by a German sniper.